Molecular light emitting diode, including organic light emitting diode (OLED) and polymer light emitting diode (PLED), is commonly consist of one or several molecular layer(s) sandwiched between an anode and a cathode. When electrons and holes are injected respectively from cathode and anode into the molecular layer by a bias voltage, these two types of carriers migrate towards each other and a fraction of them recombine to form light emission.
The focus of this study is electrode modifications of molecular light emitting diode. The electrode modifications include using a low work function cathode material, a high work function anode material or inserting a very thin electrode modifier between molecular layer and electrode for enhancing the electron or the hole injection efficiency leading to higher electroluminescence emission and/or lower threshold voltage.
Low work function metal, Mg, could effectively reduce the electron injection barrier between molecular layer and cathode leading to better emission brightness and threshold voltage. A monolayer rigid-rod poly-p-phenylenebenzobisthiazole (PBT) or poly-p-phenylenebenzobis- oxazole (PBO) PLED with Mg cathode demonstrated a low threshold voltage of 3 V. Besides, a very thin layer of LiF (or Al2O3) inserted between molecular layer and Al cathode was applied to enhance the electron injection efficiency leading to a stronger electroluminescence intensity and a low threshold voltage of 2.8 V.
On anode modification, a thin PBO layer was inserted between molecular layer and the indium-tin-oxide (ITO) substrate for improving the electroluminescence emission brightness and the threshold voltage. The PBO modified anode could effectively enhance the electro- luminescence intensity and lower the threshold voltage to 1 V~ 3 V on several mono- or multi-layer molecular light emitting diodes. Besides, a novel ITO substrate cleaning method via acid treatment was applied for increasing the work function of ITO to effectively enhance the hole injection efficiency.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0609103-195921 |
| Date | 09 June 2003 |
| Creators | Cheng, Han-Yuan |
| Contributors | Bae-Heng Tseng, Ming Chen, Shih-Jung Bai |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0609103-195921 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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